It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal is to show the range of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES ABI routinely monitors, in this case during 2022. Most loops generated are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison CIMSS Satellite Blog, which... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed blowing dust (shades of tan) along and in the wake of a strong cold front that was moving southward across the High Plains on 02 December 2022.A Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB image valid at 1905... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust RGB images (above) highlighted large plumes of blowing dust (brighter shades of pink) — lofted by strong southwesterly winds (gusting in excess of 60 mph) ahead of an approaching cold front — across parts of the Central Plains on 23 October 2022. This blowing dust resulted in surface visibility... Read More

GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) and Fire Temperature RGB images (above) showed a wildfire just southeast of Fort Simpson in Canada’s Northwest Territories (just north of the border with British Columbia), which produced a pair of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 10 October 2022. Surface winds gusting... Read More